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  2. Icebox - Wikipedia

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    Icebox. An icebox (also called a cold closet) is a compact non-mechanical refrigerator which was a common early-twentieth-century kitchen appliance before the development of safely powered refrigeration devices. Before the development of electric refrigerators, iceboxes were referred to by the public as "refrigerators".

  3. Refrigerator car - Wikipedia

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    A modern refrigerator car. The mechanical refrigeration unit is housed behind the grill at the lower right, the car's "A" end. Anheuser-Busch was one of the first companies to transport beer nationwide using railroad refrigerator cars. A refrigerator car (or "reefer") is a refrigerated boxcar (U.S.), a piece of railroad rolling stock designed ...

  4. Pacific Fruit Express - Wikipedia

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    The company was founded on December 7, 1906 by E.H. Harriman, as a joint venture between the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads. [1] It began operation on October 1, 1907, with a fleet of 6,600 refrigerator cars built by the American Car and Foundry Company (ACF). [2] In the period of 1901-1913, the Pacific Fruit Express was the ...

  5. Fruit Growers Express - Wikipedia

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    Fruit Growers Express. Wooden FGE reefer car at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. Fruit Growers Express ( FGE) was a railroad refrigerator car leasing company that began as a produce-hauling subsidiary of Armour and Company 's private refrigerator car line. Armour controlled both the packing operations and the transport insulated railroad ...

  6. Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890) - Wikipedia

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    American professor Alexander C. Twining of Cleveland, Ohio patented an early vapor-compression refrigerator in 1853 that was fully capable of producing a ton of ice per day. In 1913, refrigerators for home and domestic use were invented by Fred W. Wolf of Fort Wayne, Indiana with models consisting of a unit that was mounted on top of an ice box ...

  7. Gibson Appliance - Wikipedia

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    Gibson Appliance. Gibson appliance advertisement, 1948. Gibson was founded by Joshua Hall in Belding, Michigan, in 1877 as the Belding-Hall Company selling cabinets that housed blocks of ice ( ice-boxes ). The area around Belding, Michigan, had a skilled workforce of Danish craftsmen and a good supply of hardwoods including ash.

  8. Ice trade - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Moore, an engineer from Maryland, invented an early refrigerator which he patented in 1803; this involved a large, insulated wooden box, with a tin container of ice embedded in the top. This refrigerator primarily relied upon simple insulation, rather than ventilation, but the design was widely adopted by farmers and small traders, and ...

  9. 32 Summery Vintage Recipes for an Old-Fashioned Ladies Luncheon

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    2. Pimento Cheese. Pimento cheese is a Southern specialty, and it makes a great cracker or sandwich spread. Just mix sharp cheddar cheese with jarred pimentos and mayo. Recipe: Homesick Texan ...

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